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DISPLAY RACK. I APPLICATION FILED MAY 1. 1919.

1,3 14,796. Patented Sept 2, 1919.

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FRANCIS w. GIBSON, or WEST ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR '10 H. BEACH COMPANY, OF COSHOCTON, OHIO, CORPORATION OF OHIO.

DISPLAY-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

1 Application filed ma 7, 1919. Serial No. 295,382. I

. To all whom it may concern:

1 Be it known that I, FRANCIS W. GIBSON, a citizen of. the United States, residing at West Roxbury, county of Suffolk, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Racks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a display rack for. Supporting rows of canistered goods with their covers foremost so that access may be readily had to the contents without removing the canisters from the shelves of the rack andwithout liability of upsetting the, canisters or spilling the contents thereof. .According to my present invention the shelf structure itself is so modified as to provide canister guiding and confining portions which while permitting the free insertion and removal of the canisters, from the, shelves, positively define the canister p0- Sitions and prevent the canisters from tipping'as they are partially withdrawn and opened. In addition, my present rack is of neat and attractive appearance and provides. for a maximum exhibition of the goods,and of the descriptive or advertising matter.relatingtheretonvith a minimum of floor space.

Theconstruction and use of myrack is described in the following specification and illustrated in the drawings forming a part thereof, throughout which like reference characters are correspondingly employed, and in thedrawings:

1 Figure 1. isa front elevation of a display rack inaccordanoe with my invention.

.Fig. 2.is a side elevation thereof.

, Fig. 3, is a vertical section. b

. Fig. 4 is a part'aldevelopment of a shelf, and I Rig. 5 is a detail section articularly illus- U trating the manner of pro ucing one of the guidingand'confining portions for the can- 1ste17S... r H

I have indicated at 1 spaced side members and at 2 a vertical series of spaced superposed .hod-shaped shelves rigldly connecting said Side members. The side members and shelves may be formcd, of any suitablesheetmaterial.

The lowermost shelf of the :series has a combined canister. supporting and .rack bracing function. The front edgeof this shelf is down-turned and extends as a vertical bracing panel secured to the bottom edges of the side members. 1 of the. rack. The anel 7 also affords a relatively extende display surface for advertising matter. The top wall 8 of the rack has a downturned stop flange 8 at its rear edge against which the rear walls, of the canisters C in the top row abut. a

The intermediate shelves are. preferably of one piece construction and in themselves contain the canister guiding and defining functlon. As here shown, each shelf is formed as a rearwardly sloping bottomforming wall 20 having an upturnedbackformin wall 21 at thewrear edge thereof, and, a own-turned panel 22 at the forward edge thereof, and having preferably at its junction with the back wall 21 one or more down -turned canister guide and bearing flanges 23. The bottom and back walls may also have attaching flanges 24 whereby the shelvesmay be fastened to the side members 1 of the rack in connecting and bracingrelation thereto. v 1

Thecanister guidingnfianges 23 may be conveniently formed by slitting the bottom walls 20 of the shelves as indicated at 25 at Substantially the line of fold (see the dotted line 26, Fig. 4) of the back-forming walls 21, and bending the tongues 23 thus produced backwar ly, ,as indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 5,unti1 said tongues 23 lie in substantia ly the plane of the back-walls 21.

The'tongues 23 are of sufficient length to bear upon the top rear portions of the canisters C beyond their centers of gravity whereby to define the position ofthe canisters and prevent tipping thereof. In practice, the.

tongues are found to function most satisfactorily when located in substantially the plane of the back-forming wall 21, al-

' thoughthey {maybe locatedatany point between two parallel planes, one of which passes through the front edge 22 of the shelf, next below,'and the. other of which passes through the upturned rear flange 21 ofsaid shelf, so as to overlie the top surface of the containers at their overhang or displacement relative to'the shelf.

"The front'fia'nges 22 of the shelves provide continuous horizontal panels for; the display of advertising matter descriptive of the goods, and the back walls 21 and flangew8 constitute stops whichwith the bottom walls support-the containers 0 inupwardly and outwardly inclined relation and with their covers L zforemost,

wherebyaccess may be hadto the container contents without bodily removing the con- Q tainersfrom the shelv If desired, an ornamental cap 9 may surmount the top-wall 8 to finish the appearance of the rack. As here shown, the-cap 9 is of one piece construction, bent to suitable shape, and interlocked with the topwall 8 as indicated at'10, and riveted there-'v toas indicated at 1l,Fig. 3.-

Various modifications in the form and construction of my'rack may obviously be made, within the limits of the appended claims.

What I' therefore claim and cure by Letters Patent is: s

l. Adisplay rack'for supporting arow ofcovered containers in upwardly and outdesire to sewardly inclined relation and with their covers foremost, comprising spaced side members, and a shelf arranged therebetween and havlng a rearwardly sloplng bottom forming wall and anupturnedback forming, wall, said walls at their junction out out to provide a downwardly extending portion disposed'in guiding and confining relation to the containers whereby to define the position of the containers and to prevent tipping of acontainer whenits cover is displaced to thereof. v g 2. A display rack for supporting a row of covered containers in upwardlyandoutpermit access to the contents wardly inclined relation and with "their cov ers foremost, comprising spacedsidemembers,and a shelf arranged therebetween having a rearwardly sloping bott(' m for'm'- y ing wall and an upturned back. forming wall, said walls at their junction jcut out to provide a downwardly extending tongue disposed in substantially the plane of the back forming wall, and in guiding and con-' 1 fining relation to the containers whereby to define theposition of the containers and to, prevent tipping of container 1 'its cover is displaced to permit access to the contents thereof. r

A display rack for supporting a row of covered containers in upwardly and outwardly inclined relation and with their covers foremost, comprising spaced side members, and, a shelf arranged therebe tween and having a 'rearwardly sloping bottom forming wall and an upturned back forming wall, one of said walls cut-out to provide a downwardly extending tongue disposed between two parallelplanes, one of which passes through the front edge of the shelf neXt below and the other of which passes through i the upturnedback-forming wall of said shelf, and said tongu'e disposed in guiding and confining relation tothe having a rearwardly sloping bottom form ing wall and an upturned back forming wall, said bottom 'wall cut-out to provide a v plurality of spaced 1 downwardly extending tongues disposed between two parallel planes, one of which passes" through theifront edge of theshaft'neXt below and the:

other ofiwhich passes through the upturned back-forming wall of said shelf, and 'said" tongue'disposed'in guiding and confining rel'atlon to the containers whereby redefine; the position of the containers and to pref- Vent ppi g of l aifi el whenlits cover isdisplace'd to permit a'ccessto the contents thereof. V

5.A"display rack for'supportingmows:

of covered containers withtheircovers' fore: most, comprising spaced side membersfand a vertical series of spaced shelves arranged horizontally'therebetween, said shelves having downwardly f extending portions fdis? posed between two parallel planes, one. of

which passes within the front edge of the shelf 'neXt below and the'other of which passes through the rear edge 'of'thejshelf bottom, and "said downwardly extending portions disposed guiding and"confini'ng. relation to the'containerson 'the shelfnext below wherebyto define the position ofthe containers and to prevent tipping of a container when its'cover is displaced to permit access to the contents thereof.

6. A display rack for supportingirows of covered containers with their covers fore;

most, comprisingspaced side members, and a vertical serles of spaced shelves arranged horizontally thereb'etween-and comprising 1 bottom and back forming'wallssaid walls In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS W. GIBSON.

cut-out to provide downwardly extending portions disposed in guiding and confining relation to the containers whereby to define the position of the containers and to pre vent tipping of a container when its cover is displaced to permit access to the contents thereof.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. 0.

Witnesses MARION F. WEISS, GEO. B. RAWLINGS. 

